i disagree with said list. humanities degrees are really versatile AND maybe you won't get the most high paying job if you do something that deals directly with your major (which a lot of people in humanities/social sciences don't) but i feel like people actually enjoy what they are studying. like it isn't just mere preparation for a job. i dunno i majored in political science and philosophy. which i agree, maybe not the most useful in terms of jobs that deal directly with your major, but i really liked what i got out of both of them.

and i'm pretty sure i'd enjoy studying anything on the list of worthless majors (well maybe not comm or dance)

6/4/2008 3:17:34 PM

i have a humanities degree and i support myself just fine by playing music and proofreading

so it's pretty swanky

6/4/2008 3:18:40 PM

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" Here’s the bad news, if an employer is going to hire someone to help decipher how human beings communicate, he’s going to hire someone with the letters “Dr.” before their name, not the person who first checks to see if a class is offered online, then when they find out it’s not, let’s out a “gaaaaay bro.”"

hahahhahaahahah

6/4/2008 3:18:43 PM

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"but do you think you got the job because you had a communications degree or because of your resume/personality/experience?"

both

one inserted the key, the other turned it

6/4/2008 3:19:19 PM

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"khcadwal All American 2970 Posts user info edit post i disagree with said list. humanities degrees are really versatile AND maybe you won't get the most high paying job if you do something that deals directly with your major (which a lot of people in humanities/social sciences don't) but i feel like people actually enjoy what they are studying. like it isn't just mere preparation for a job. i dunno i majored in political science and philosophy. which i agree, maybe not the most useful in terms of jobs that deal directly with your major, but i really liked what i got out of both of them "

shut the fuck up hipster

6/4/2008 3:19:30 PM

i hated majority of the classes i had to take

it was like eating tomatoes to shit a salad

6/4/2008 3:21:37 PM

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"MAN I REALLY WANT THAT N64 BOWL PIECE. LIKE A LOT"

6/4/2008 3:22:51 PM

i liked my classes. well the upper level ones. all the intro and gen ed classes sucked.

6/4/2008 3:23:32 PM

^^^^ that is a very hipster mindset. Isn't the primary reason you go to college supposed to be preparation for getting a job?

[Edited on June 4, 2008 at 3:26 PM. Reason : .]

6/4/2008 3:26:12 PM

gen ed sucks

but even the intro classes i had were pretty good aside from the whiny engineers and business majors who complained about having to write so much

with that said, i took intro classes that i didn't know much about, like west african lit, and i also skipped freshman english so there was no tedious bullshit

^ you go to college to learn. learning != preparing for a job. it can be both, but they're not the same thing.

6/4/2008 3:26:38 PM

horticulturist and forestry students can be pretty worthless if all they do is work at starbucks, attempt to start their own floral conservancy initiatives and break out massive plant identification guides and key random plants during inappropriate times...like during weddings and in malls

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"that is a very hipster mindset. Isn't the primary reason you go to college supposed to be preparation for getting a job? "

umm...yea, howd you figure that one out?

i mean thats the only way you arent spending four years.....or the next 50 years...flushing your money down the toilet

[Edited on June 4, 2008 at 3:30 PM. Reason : x]

6/4/2008 3:27:53 PM

should have been the first reply to the thread:



[Edited on June 4, 2008 at 3:34 PM. Reason : argh]

6/4/2008 3:28:10 PM

don't let heather see that you wrote "should of"

6/4/2008 3:28:52 PM

it looks like he could of benefited from an English major

6/4/2008 3:30:33 PM

if you are going to college just to learn, there are plenty of authors who have went to college for you in the past dont waste your own time

[Edited on June 4, 2008 at 3:31 PM. Reason : x]

6/4/2008 3:31:07 PM

this is a perfect example of why english majors will always be able to find work

people can't write to save their lives

6/4/2008 3:32:54 PM

you mean this is why english majors will always have an internet forum to terrorize because their asses will never find a real career, and struggle to hold regular jobs

6/4/2008 3:34:22 PM

i don't need a regular job

i get paid $38 an hour to proofread

6/4/2008 3:34:44 PM

i like to learn therefore i am a hipster. thanks everyone for clearing up my identity problems. well guess i'm off to dye my hair black and....oh yea i have a nose piercing appt at 4. and i still have to read the independent and wash my skinny jeans. what else is on my list? ahhh yes from 6-8 i will be at cup of joe smoking cigarettes and pondering the ways of the world.

oh sweet jobless life of a humanities major.

6/4/2008 3:34:45 PM

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"don't let heather see that you wrote "should of""

Whatever. Descriptive grammar FTW.

6/4/2008 3:35:07 PM

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"oh sweet jobless life of a humanities major."

basically

6/4/2008 3:35:48 PM

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"oh sweet jobless life of a humanities major."

haha i went to an arts highschool and that so describes quite a few people i know. Atleast they don't at all have related jobs. Why i went into engineering and not music or theatre.

6/4/2008 3:40:09 PM

so they have sweet lives and you don't?

i'm not following.

6/4/2008 3:41:04 PM

thats the thing, you can find more instances of the stereotype than instances of decent human beings that went through with these shit majors

its like a few boulders in a gravel pit

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"thanks everyone for clearing up my identity problems. well guess i'm off to dye my hair black and....oh yea i have a nose piercing appt at 4. and i still have to read the independent and wash my skinny jeans. what else is on my list? ahhh yes from 6-8 i will be at cup of joe smoking cigarettes and pondering the ways of the world. "

i wasnt aware that that is an example of a sweet life

[Edited on June 4, 2008 at 3:42 PM. Reason : z]

6/4/2008 3:41:37 PM

see that describes NO ONE i know.

(hence the sarcasm)

6/4/2008 3:41:39 PM

i get paid to play music that i love

and i get paid to be a grammar nazi

and then i do what i want all day

it's pretty fucking sweet

6/4/2008 3:44:01 PM

congratulations, maybe they should put your face on a billboard

6/4/2008 3:49:29 PM

^^^^ dude i was replying to your (and the other) remark(s) about being a hipster. that was sarcasm.

obviously i majored in humanities (see above), obviously i am happy with that, obviously i am not jobless, and obviously i don't calculate the worth of my degree on salary. oh and obviously i thought your remarks were ignorant and idiotic which was supposed to be conveyed by sarcasm. but i guess that is something that is only taught in worthless majors.

what i meant was that people who like to learn or who appreciate their degree for more than the X salary it brings in do not = hipsters.

[Edited on June 4, 2008 at 3:50 PM. Reason : .]

6/4/2008 3:50:09 PM

probably not

my royalty structure is front-loaded

6/4/2008 3:50:33 PM

I know a girl who's majoring in Geography... because she likes maps...

6/4/2008 3:51:23 PM

well...most people dont have maps

so at least theres a need for geography

6/4/2008 3:52:01 PM

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"what i meant was that people who like to learn or who appreciate their degree for more than the X salary it brings in do not = hipsters."

well if you wanna spend your life doin meth and hopping trains because that life has value to you what can i say

6/4/2008 3:53:06 PM

^^
but we got GPS already?

[Edited on June 4, 2008 at 3:53 PM. Reason : ^]

6/4/2008 3:53:25 PM

hopping trains can be fun and profitable

meth, not so much

6/4/2008 3:53:57 PM

you cannot hop trains without meth and/or poverty being involved

its just not possible, they are peas and cornbread...corned beef and cabbage

6/4/2008 3:55:05 PM

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"what i meant was that people who like to learn or who appreciate their degree for more than the X salary it brings in do not = hipsters."

i agree with that. that was silly to label that "hipster". There's quite a few more strict characteristics you have to maintain before you become a hipster. None of you read the Hipster Handbook?

6/4/2008 3:55:27 PM

now that you mention it i do have a pretty terrible case of meth mouth.

see

6/4/2008 3:55:29 PM

i mean thats where youre headed

6/4/2008 3:55:53 PM

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"The Over-Rated College Education by Daniel L. Nice As a society, we place too much importance on "education", and too little importance on real learning and accomplishment. No where is this more epitomized than in college education. Is college for everyone? As a society, the answer is "yes, as long as you can find some way to afford it". But what happens at college? Students are educated in many areas, but how much do they learn? College advocates argue that a liberal arts education, while perhaps not directly relevant, will always provide a good foundation because students will "learn how to learn". Such a rationale is beside the point. While they may learn to learn by taking a liberal arts education, could they not also do so by many other less expensive means? Indeed, much of what college students pick up on the side such as dealing with people of different cultures and backgrounds can be picked up by simply working a job where one deals with the public, such as the food-service industry. The same can be said for responsibility, accountability, and others. In this case, the subject is being paid for learning, not going into debt. A college degree is overrated at best. Most true learning that does take place at college is on the students' own time. While some professors may offer question and answer times, most lecture during class and expect the students to manage their incomprehension by means of studying or by a volunteer tutor. So, a degree from a college says only that a student has been able to teach himself what he was expected to learn. While some students may require such a structured program to learn, many do not. Consider the would-be student who does not like school. He is not necessarily lazy, but he is interested in practical application of what he learns, and he is interested in one particular area. Students like this commonly have remarks such as "he is not working to his ability" made about them in high school, and few go on to college. Of those that do go to college, most will drop out. Why have they seemed so uninterested in "their studies"? Often, they are busy learning about something that IS relevant on their own, and between providing the means to pursue it (working) and pursuing it, they have little time left for being "educated". "Such people do not belong in college" would be the common response. Of course, then society will downplay their skills, or otherwise underpay them forever simply because they are good independent self-motivated learners who found a better way than "the system" to learn. College has distorted true learning terribly. When asked what a student's goals are in high school, students respond with what college they wish to attend. College simply extends the required education period mandated by the government while accomplishing little or no more than a good high school/trade school combination in many career paths. Why should anyone's goal be school? Of course we are always learning, but, after basic skills are acquired, is school the most efficient way to learn anything? Indeed, most college graduates do not end up with a job in their major, and liberal arts supporters will argue their case using this. What is really significant, however, is that these people are TRAINED by the employer for the position, and they use the college degree as a sort of elimination factor before any real screening takes place. It is a falacy that a student can walk out of college prepared to handle any job, reguardless of his major, yet that is exactly what liberal arts supporters are suggesting. (Being too well-rounded is pointless.) College tuition is another factor that prevents many from attending. These "nonprofit institutions" are second only to the Federal government for wasting money. As is noted above, little is done at college by the colleges that justifies such astronomical tuition rates. More class time is spent by the average high school student than college students. Is that not what we are paying for? Colleges will scream "we have better facilities", but such expenses are nominal compared with the sum of only a few students' tuitions, especially since much of the money for new facilities comes by way of donation or by government grants. What then is the tuition money for? No answer that would satisfy those who pay the tuition can be given. But that is only half of it. Since most students (read: their parents) cannot afford college, the government gives them the money. Of course, these are only the poor families. Those students who have been industrious by working on their own are penalized for doing so by not getting as much or any help. They are either forced into debt over college from the government "aid" in the form of loans, or they must attempt to work their way through, which is increasingly impossible. College becomes yet another way for the government to attempt to "equalize" the population, in accordance with their socialistic perspective on everything. College takes money from the rich, gives money to the poor, and keeps the middle class working harder and harder. Since the government feeds this corrupt system, tuition will continue to skyrocket and the true purpose of college will continue to diminish. The more employers hire by degree instead of by qualification, the more of our heritage we wash down the drain. Instead of finding one's own way to success, Americans are forced into the "system" if they hope to accomplish anything, or so they are taught by their school and their parents. "

6/4/2008 3:57:49 PM

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"you cannot hop trains without meth and/or poverty being involved"

you can if boredom is involved

i mean, we live in RALEIGH

6/4/2008 3:57:57 PM

good post tsalva


ive learned very little sittin at a desk, at best ive only been interested in what a prof merely touches on and research it on my own, most of you fuckin ass holes get your good grades by bitching to professors about how you b+ should be an A and askin for extra time to get shit done

if i missed a project, fuck it. if i got a c+ or a low b, fuck it im not gonna be some asshole all up in a professors face, i take the grade i earn i know how hard i worked on it (or didnt) i just manned up and took my grade

no i didnt do extra credit either, i didnt feel there was any benefit to doing it just to bolster my grade

if i was interested in the point of the assignment i just...fuckin read about it

yall fuckers get these great grades by just pimpin the system and playin the game, i mean shit and it works in the real world to but the difference is in the real world you get paid for it and in college your payin these fuckheads to teach you how to cut corners


[Edited on June 4, 2008 at 4:05 PM. Reason : x]

6/4/2008 3:59:33 PM

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"good post tsalva"

Yeah i enjoyed that.

6/4/2008 4:04:13 PM

I don't understand why you would goto college here and major in CHASS. You mineswell keep your money and start making rugs and sellin them at foodlion.

6/4/2008 4:05:39 PM

i mean maybe i dont get to walk across the stage with a rope around my neck (haha how many of my forestry co-majors wanted to see a rope around my neck anyway) but im doin good now good job, know how to have fun, and pursuin athletic dreams

and a good little bit of trivial knowledge too

6/4/2008 4:06:44 PM

this is just the dumbest thread ever. minus the other 5293748239 on the same topic

6/4/2008 4:07:05 PM

^^^

i got to have the author of one of my favorite books as my advisor

you can't beat that

6/4/2008 4:07:09 PM

well yeah there are much better schools for humanities than nc state.

6/4/2008 4:07:16 PM

who cares. there are better schools than nc state PERIOD.

6/4/2008 4:08:10 PM

i went to state cause i was guaranteed a room with A/C

my chances weren't so good at carolina

6/4/2008 4:08:42 PM

hahah

see with my major, I am pretty fuckin sure there are very few schools better than NCSU


haha thats funny, poor gal

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"i went to state cause i was guaranteed a room with A/C my chances weren't so good at carolina "

holy shit dude, are fuckin serious? u arent plannin on leavin that up there are you

[Edited on June 4, 2008 at 4:09 PM. Reason : z]

6/4/2008 4:08:57 PM